For sci-fi log #2, I chose to read and review “Random Sample” by T.P. Caravan. This short story, told in a first-person point of view, begins with a noticeably bratty little girl speaking to an unknown entity. She talks about how her brother Johnny and her were outside playing in their backyard stomping on ants when a spaceship suddenly landed in the nearby woods. She and Johnny went to the scene, and found aliens from the ship. She declared herself queen of them, and Johnny himself king. She wanted the aliens to bow down to her, but they didn’t. She got upset and went over to one of them and kicked it. Johnny followed suit. The aliens then took them inside their ship, where they received simple tests. The girl didn’t like any of the tests, so she purposefully did them wrong. She forced her brother to do the same. The bratty girl and her brother soon started to misbehave immensely, breaking the insides of the aliens’ ship. The aliens soon got very angry with the children. The aliens were disgusted by the kids’ behavior, and so they took off. The girl then starts to talk about how high the temperature is, casually describing what she sees: the earth burning up. The story ends with her apologizing to the aliens, saying she was sorry that she was bad.
The story is called “Random Sample” because the aliens took two random subjects and tested them to see whether or not the human race was worthy of being kept alive. Thanks to the not-even-innocent little girl, however, we all died. Thanks, little girl.
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